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Re: highlight failed part of isearch input
From: |
Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: highlight failed part of isearch input |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:20:52 +0000 (UTC) |
When you search for such a string, Emacs does not let you simply
use `DEL' to back out the failure part, character by character ...
I do not understand.
To back out of a failure, invoke isearch-del-char (`C-M-w'). That
deletes one character from the end of the search string and searches
again.
When you search for such a string, Emacs does not let you simply
use `DEL' to back out the failure part, character by character;
hitting `DEL' removes the entire search string at once.
isearch-delete-char (`DEL') only removes the entire search string if
you use isearch-yank-word-or-char (`C-w') and only if you also make
that word be the only part of the search string. If you invoke
isearch-yank-word-or-char (`C-w') twice, isearch-delete-char (`DEL')
removes only the last.
You can use isearch-yank-word-or-char (`C-w') to gather a complete
word and then remove characters from that string with isearch-del-char
(`C-M-w').
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- RE: highlight failed part of isearch input, (continued)
- RE: highlight failed part of isearch input, Drew Adams, 2007/07/10
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/10
- RE: highlight failed part of isearch input, Drew Adams, 2007/07/10
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/10
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, David Kastrup, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Miles Bader, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, David Kastrup, 2007/07/11
- RE: highlight failed part of isearch input, Drew Adams, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- RE: highlight failed part of isearch input, Drew Adams, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/11
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/07/12
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/12
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/12
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/13
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/14
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/15
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/23
- Re: highlight failed part of isearch input, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/14